No: HPFGUIDX 123450 "Alex Boyd" <alex51324 at h...> wrote: "Mrs Figg had recently taken to asking him around for tea whenever she saw him in the street" (2, US HC). "If this sentence refers to tea-the-meal, rather than tea-the-beverage..." It refers to "tea-the-meal". Its a light meal served around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Grantham MacGregor